Florida Forest Service, Georgia and Wildfire
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It was not yet clear how the wildfires started, but the bottom half of Georgia is perilously dry and the conditions prompted the state’s forestry commission to issue a burn ban
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Georgia’s most destructive wildfire season in history has burned 55,000 acres as Florida rain finally chips away at exceptional droughtAcross the pine flatwoods and farm fields of South Georgia, more than 50,000 acres have burned this spring in what officials describe as a historically severe wildfire season. Two massive blazes, the Pineland Road Fire and the Highway 82 Wildfire,
Two of the fires have led to unprecedented losses of homes, with dozens destroyed and more in danger, Gov. Brian Kemp said.
Wildfires in Georgia and Florida continue to burn thousands of acres more than a week after the blazes began. In Florida, the state is currently plagued with nearly 100 wildfires that have burned across 15,445 acres as of Tuesday, April 28, according to ...
Smoke drifts into Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, as air quality declines and 50 homes destroyed